Monday, October 31, 2011

AAP Sales too obscured to chart

YTD hardcover sums to $930.4M (January through July) while the AAP reports YTD sales through August of $641.7M. Ummm....

YTD paperback sums to $772.5M (January through July) while the AAP reports YTD of 772.5M.

YTD MMP $380.4M (through July) vs. $310.4 through August.

YTD Childrends $734.23 through July vs. a reported $638.4M through August.

Ebooks: $638.4M through July vs. reported $649.2M through August.

In other words, the downward revisions in sales mean August had massive negative sales for every category except ebooks. Ebooks would have puny sales... I suspect fewer vendors reported.

I hope monthly book sales come out later. August sales would normally have come out now, but the AAP is delaying, hiding, and obscuring the data as much as possible. I suspect we'll see numbers later worth graphing.

But when the sum of 8 months of sales is that much less than the sum of the previously reported 7 months of sales...

About Me

I love to parent, read, ski, travel, and scuba dive. I've switched from blogging about real estate to ebooks. As much of an optimist as I've been on ebooks, their growth is typically better than my predictions! My main prediction is 50% ebook market share by end of January 2013.
Any of my charts may be re-used with just a link to this blog (blog or specific post is up to whomever borrows the graphs).
Neil